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EURR 5010

Research Design and Methodology in European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

0.5 credit · Graduate

Examination of various issues in research design and methodology, with examples from the academic literature. Discussion of student research proposals.

2025

Topics

  • Introduction (Casteel/Goode) Casteel/Goode
  • Research Design and Case Studies / Goode
  • Doing History and Cultural Analysis / Casteel
  • Supervisor
  • Media Analysis (Goode) Goode
  • Research materials
  • Research Ethics (Geiger) Viju/Geiger
  • 1st Small group discussion Casteel/Goode
  • No class
  • 2nd Small groups (Casteel/Goode) Casteel/Goode
  • Mar GUEST TALK: Lauren Woodard, “A Class meets
  • Common Language, a Common
  • Small groups (Casteel/Goode) Casteel/Goode
  • Mar Next steps: writing your MRP, year 2 of Casteel
  • MA (Casteel)
  • Submit Final Version of Proposal and Final Version of

Readings

  • Adam Przewoski and Frank Salomon, On the Art of Writing Proposals (Social Science Research Council, 1997), https://s3.amazonaws.com/ssrc- cdn1/crmuploads/new_publication_3/the-art-of-writing-
  • proposals.pdf Jan Allen (2019). The Productive Graduate Student Writer. Sterling, VA: Stylus: 1-5, 113-126 (other chapters might be relevant for particular questions/issues).
  • Case Studies: Arend Lijphart (1971). “Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method.” American Political Science Review 65 (3): 682–93.
  • Andrew Bennett and Colin Elman (2007). “Case Study Methods in the International Relations Subfield.” Comparative Political Studies 40 (2): 170–95.
  • Caitlyn Collins, Megan Tobias Neely, and Shamus Khan (2024).
  • “‘Which Cases Do I Need?’ Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research.” Annual Review of Sociology 50: 21–40.

Prerequisites & course information

Precludes additional credit for EURR 5200 (no longer offered) and EURR 5300 (no longer offered).

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